
A compressor that wears its mood on its face. Pick the personality first — opto, FET or VCA — then set the threshold. Each mode is voiced honestly, the VU swings the way you expect, and the parallel mix is built in.
Pick the mode for the source — the controls don't shift, the character does. A calibrated VU shows gain reduction the way the source feels it, with an external sidechain and an internal detector HPF so the bass doesn't pump the level.
Soft-knee, slow-attack and program-dependent. Vocals and bass love it.
Snappy attack and a hard knee — the sound of a 1176-style box.
Clean, fast and predictable. The mix-bus glue character.